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  Charitable Giving and Taxes: Determining a Property’s Fair Market Value

  By Tax Facts Online  |  March 22, 2013

  The experts at Tax Facts Online on how the fair market value of a property donation is determined.

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  Kitces on Top 3 Topics for Advisors in 2013—Topic 1: Fiduciary and SRO

  By Michael E. Kitces  |  January 8, 2013

  First up in an intense year for advisor regulation: movement from the DOL on its fiduciary rule.

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  FINRA’s New Suitability Rule Edges Closer to ‘Fiduciary’: NAPFA Chairman

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 16, 2012

  Ron Rhoades, the chairman of NAPFA, says the rule's biggest challenge is that a BD’s “investment strategy” must now meet suitability requirements.

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  Giving to Get?

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  April 24, 2012

  In a bid to push the deadlocked fiduciary rulemaking process forward, advisory and consumer trade groups that support broadening the fiduciary role for all advice givers made an unusual move in late March.

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  Motion: That Serving a Client’s Best Interests Needn’t Be Complicated

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  April 17, 2012

  We can have a minimum set of standards that tell us what the 'best interest of the client' means.

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  Timing of SEC’s Fiduciary Rule Debated at CFA Conference

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2011

  While optimism remains that the Securities and Exchange Commission will issue a rule putting brokers under a fiduciary mandate, the question being debated among industry and consumer officials is exactly when it will happen.

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  Separate but Equal?

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2011

  To hear Duane Thompson tell it, now that the Republicans have control of the House of Representatives, a bill authorizing a self-regulatory organization for investment advisors any time soon is unlikely.